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The copyright and license of this wiki are supposed to be available at [http://wiki.debian.org/copyright.html copyright.html], but it wasn't. So it's unclear which license apply to the content of this site (there has been lots of claims).

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Wiki Licencing Terms

Dear Debian System Administrators: There are concerns regarding unclear licencing of material on this wiki. These concerns have been voiced on the debian-devel mailing list (references at the end).

In summary, the wiki should express a clear licence for the content on it, under which material can be contributed to and re-used with. This licence should be DFSG-compliant, with the suggestion being the MIT licence (see references).

This will allow material from compatible resources to be incorporated into these pages, such as code/configuration snippets where appropriate, or larger documents. The debian developer's reference and new maintainer's guide are both licenced under the GPLv2, for example.

please activate page_licence_enabled and page_licence_terms to ensure that each page expresses the licence.

-- JonDowland

Example

The MoinMoin options to enable licences are:

page_licence_enabled = 1
page_licence_terms = u"SiteLicence"

Where ?SiteLicence could be any appropriate term. Then please include the licence chosen on the relevant wiki page.

Legacy Wiki Content/Specifying Multiple Licenses

Because there will be content with multiple licenses, instead of attempting to slap a blanket license on every page, what I suggest instead is to use [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/SectionParser ?SectionParser] (or similar) to add [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MetaDataInMoin metadata] to each page that gives the licensing status of each of the wiki pages. To do this, we need the following:

[[[#!section
#class special
#format wiki
#License GPL v2 or later at your option
]]]

License/Copyright

License

["GPLv2"] or later at your option

Authors

DonArmstrong

Importing other Wiki content

Work is progressing on writing scripts to import the material from http://wiki.debian.net/, with interest expressed on importing material from other wikis, too. (See MigrationStatus).

I request that this is not done until it is clear

The wiki.debian.net copyright is at http://wiki.debian.net/copyright.html

I shall start a discussion on -legal requesting help determining the best course of action here.

References

About wiki licensing in general